Dive Watch

The Freak has returned. At SIHH this week, Ulysse Nardin updated its most prominent watch with new technology first seen last year inside the Innovision II. While the Innovision II was just a concept watch, its ideas have been fleshed out into what UN is calling the Freak Vision, which…

The collection impressed with its assured case shape – a pleasing blend of robustness and classicism that, for many, epitomised what Cartier is all about. Yep, one of the standout watches of last year was the Drive de Cartier. Well, the Extra Flat takes things a few steps further, removing…

The new Panerai Luminor Submersible 1950 BMG-TECH 3 Days Automatic PAM692 is one of the watches that we cannot wait to see and feel for ourselves in the flesh at SIHH 2017. The new BMG-TECH material sounds exciting and is a testament to Panerai’s relentless research in exotic and breathtaking…

Founded in 2014, Andersmann is a watch company specialized in manufacturing high-performing dive watches equipped with Swiss-made movements and assembled in Bien. And the latest model from this brand is the Deep Ocean diver’s watch offering a certified water-resistance of 3,000 meters / 10,000 feet. Crafted from Grade 5 Titanium…

This racy Grand Seiko Spring Drive Chronograph has very little chance of going unnoticed on the wrist. Not only does it feature a sporty new case shape, Seiko has also made it using a modular technique. The outer case elements are glossy black ceramic, and the inner case is lightweight…

As in past years, this year’s fair brought an abundance of interesting new dive watches from a variety of brands, several offering new in-house movements, chronograph functions, and new case materials such as bronze. Let’s have a look at below dive watches from the 2016 Swiss Watch Fair ! …

The Rolex Daytona had to make this list. It has, hands-down, been the most hyped/discussed/desired watch of 2016 – and we caught a bit of a lucky break at Baselworld, managing to post the first video review. Of course, we spent some quality time with it later in the year,…

For those unaware, LIMES (like fan-favorite Archimede) is a brand under the ICKLER umbrella, a family-owned company that has been manufacturing watches and watch cases in Pforzheim since 1924. That is to say, LIMES watches come with decades of know-how, with much of the development and production (barring the Swiss-made…

All divers’ watches share certain characteristics that make them divers’ watches: unidirectional rotating bezels, secure screw-down crowns, higher-than-typical water resistance. Some of these divers’ watches, however, go the extra mile (or fathom), with cases that can descend to 3,000 or even 4,000 meters, chronographs operable at incredible depths, or high-tech…

The Pontos S Diver which introduced in 2013, has since become one of the most popular watches in Maurice Lacroix’s catalogue. Retro-inspired yet undoubtedly modern, the Pontos S is its own watch, one that is not bogged down by attempts to emulate the Submariner or any other iconic, historical dive…

I must say, seeing the lavishly factory-set, full pave dial-equipped Rolex GMT-Master II 116759SARU hands-on was much like a soul-searching experience. I had this dream once, where I met the high priest of some long-abolished civilization. Sitting on the ground, sipping on his weird pipe, with his eyes closed, he…

The Freak has returned. At SIHH this week, Ulysse Nardin updated its most prominent watch with new technology first seen last year inside the Innovision II. While the Innovision II was just a concept watch, its ideas have been fleshed out into what UN is calling the Freak Vision, which…

This year, Eaton’s collaboration takes the same approach of using unconventional materials by incorporating brushed bronze into the bezel. The Classic Fusion Bronze was directly inspired by the famous Charging Bull sculpture in New York’s Financial District that is also made of bronze. On the caseback, an Eaton-arranged medley of…